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[Poem] When You Arent Free

 By Emmit Other

People assume

A dictatorship begins

When the secret police are at your door

To drag you into the night

But its already started for most

The most free people

Are now 

Not

Freedom starts in your heart and mind

Navalny in Russia

Was free until the day he died

Even though his country wasnt

The media self censors for the Gulf of America

The Senate approves Trumps Nominations

Many believe them good

More believe they were approved from fear

Being careful in dark times doesnt make you a slave

If you have a purpose

If you have a mission

If you wait and hope to make men free

And say The Gulf of America 

For the greater good

Them you are a free man in a police state

But if you say it 

To comply 

To just do your job

To just not have the emails

From angry constituents

To just stay off the radar

Of the scary man

Or if you take delight in the fear

Of making others say it

You are not free

How do you truly know?

If you have to ask the question

You are already in the queue

To be a slave

And you only get off of it

When you decide

Who you will be

And what you will do

[Poem] Noah's Raft

 By Emmit Other

I want you to imagine

A big raft

With every living thing on Earth 

And the ocean is acid

Now

I want you to imagine

That Maga took axes and chopped it up

Because they have

Ignore what they say

Because the curse they have brought down on themselves

Cant be measured in mere Karma

We are talking Old Testament Curses

First Born Angel of Death Stuff

Any god that cares for non human life

Would have jurisdiction alone

Does God not know every sparrow that falls?

The laws of thermodynamics

Dont give a shit

About the mouthfarts maga vomits

They are liars

And i will no longer regard them as reasoning

But as sure as the sun will rise

Everything in the spirit world

That cares about anything alive

Sees the Mark of Evil on their forehead

And most of us living see it too

We dont need a Zombie Apocalypse

We are already in one

The Living Death walk among us

And they are going to be made to pay

For every suffering they have caused

Until the debt is paid

Their right to Karma is stripped

They can never pay it back

Never

And I smile

And smile

And smile

At every single moment of their suffering

And there will be reckoning

Many are already experiencing it

Many are shocked to find we can be angry too

And none will pity them

None but the sickest of centrists

But Karma knows their debt too

And they will be paid in kind as well

Well

Well

Well 

Paid

Indeed

There Is No Love In The World

 It is Valentine's Day and the world is full of hate.  For the first time in my life, my natural reaction is to withdraw rather than rush into the streets and pound people in the face (which is why I have not ever and will not ever EVER join a protest).  Alas, this is not a time where one can do that, but I will leave the what to better people than I.   There are general strikes and protests and yes you should write your congressthings.

Do all the things.

But as and mayhap before you do, take a breath.  As a writer, when I wear that hat, I am an entertainer.  And that means reading and empathizing with my audience in a live reading or podcast or simply sitting down and writing.  And in that capacity I have learned a few things you might find useful.

You cannot give if you are an empty shell.  Self care was important during covid and its more important now.   Eat.  Read.  Exercise.  Find a routine that lets you balance staying connected and also letting your batteries recharge.   If you are empty they will break you, and they want to break you.   And if you break you have no idea how many people around you might break too.  Maybe no one cares, maybe more people than you can imagine are counting on you.  Hell, maybe your neighbors you barely speak to need you to wave and say hello every day.  Keeping it together is half the battle.

And about that.

Be there for people.  Reach out to friends and family with empathy.  Be more available because in the times to come we will all need each other.  Trust will be at a premium and the people you are there for now will be there for you later.   Vent.   Reminiss.   Ask how they are doing.  Empathy and kindness are our greatest weapons against hate and ignorance.   Joy is the kryptonite of the current regime but Joy is a long term investment; it must be real and cannot be forced. 

You cannot clap harder to make joy happen.   Build something together; anything.  A house, an app,  a play, a school.  There is no greater sense of accomplishment when the world is falling apart than pushing against the tide and making something real happen.

And above all, if you have a romantic interest; be romantic today.   Symbols matter and right now they matter a ton.  Show love.  Show that you care.

One day at a time.

[Poem] The Case For Vegetarianism for Four Years

 By Emmit Other

I kid you not

With not the least bit of hyperbole

I eat spagettios with meat balls

Out of the can

Like a fucking bachelor hobo

And I read

RFK Jr approved by senate

And I suddenly imagine

Sticking in the spoon

And pulling out dead rat head

I dont care what you publicly say

But if I were you

i would get my drugs from Canada

And skip meat

Until we get a real person

In charge of enforcing federal law

[Poem] American Sports Are Fascism

 By Emmit Other

The year is 1936

And Jesse Owens

A black man

And one of the most athletic humans to ever live

Kicks Nazi Ass

So pathetic White American Sports Nazis

Took his medal

And he didnt get it back

Til decades after he died

Colin Kaepernick knelt to protest racism

And got reamed by the Capitalist owners

And right wing filth

And now a man who tears apart hospitals and farms

And his filth followers cheer even as he makes them unemployed too

The Monopolist NFL removed anti racist slogans

Sports is always a powerful symbol

And America is a fascist state

So be a fascist and watch and cheer your team

But American Sports is Fascism when it is run by a fascist

I dont care what you say or babble

What is is what is

Sports is for meatheads anyway

You do you

But if you particpate in the stuperbowl today

Even the fucking commercials

ESPECIALLY the fucking commercials

You endorse fascism

[Poem] Echoes Of Time

 By Emmit Other

He frowned and yelled

When CNN

(The most honest network in history really wink wink)

Showed Palestinians cheering when the towers fell

But 

Because

People who only live to own the libs

Have no

Honor values morals love empathy compassion

Except for contempt for those things

Twenty three years later

He cheered just like the faked footage of Palestinians

Leaping up and down

And blowing balloons and dancing

When the ICE agents

Opened in live fire

On a peaceful protest

It became a family thing

Once a week

They melted butter and popped popcorn

And watched the murders of the week

They had pleading for your life like a liberal bingo

Eventually making liberals participate in gladiatorial games

Because the most popular Maga past time

Blood

They thirst

For

Our

Blood